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This topic is a part of General Awareness section which might prove to be very useful as these are direct questions and provide aspirants with quick and easy marks. Find the list of most prestigious awards and their related fields below helpful for upcoming exams:
First actor to get Oscar Award |
Janet Gayner |
First Indian to receive a Nobel Prize |
Rabindranath Tagore |
First Indian lady actress to receive the Padma
Shri Award |
Nargis Dutt |
First Indian to receive the Magaysay Award |
Vinoba Bhave |
India’s highest honour in the field of
literature |
Jnanpith Award |
Oscar Award was won 36 times |
Walt Disney |
First to win the Nobel Prize for literature |
Rene Sully Prudhome |
First recipient of Human Rights Awards |
Nelson Mandela |
Highest gallantry award in India |
Param Vir Chakra |
Nobel prizes are given in how many fields |
6 |
Nobel Prize is awarded in |
Stockholm, Swedish |
Nobel Peace Prize is
awarded in |
Oslo, Norway |
Ramon Magsaysay Award is named after the former
President of |
Phillippines |
First recipient of Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna
Award |
Limba Ram |
First recipient of Dada Sahab Phalke |
Devika Rani |
The Nobel Prize was first awarded in |
1969 |
India’s highest award given for excellent work
in art, literature and recognition of public service |
Bharat Ratna |
Goldman Awards are given for outstanding
contribution in |
Protection of Environment |
Has received both Bharat Ratna and Nishan -e
-Pakistan |
Morarji Desai |
first Indira Gandhi Award for International
Justice and Harmony |
Yasser Arafat |
Cannes Film Festival is held in |
France |
Pulitzer Prize |
Journalsim |
Also known as Alternative
Nobel Prize |
Right Livelihood Award |
First recipient of Rajiv
Gandhi's 'Khel Ratna' award |
Vishwanathan Anand |
'Ashoka Chakra' is awarded
for |
The most conspicuous
bravery or self-sacrifice on land, air or sea |
The Nobel Prize was first
awarded in |
1901 |
The journalist who refused
to accept 'Padma Bhushan' |
Khushwant Singh, n protest
against Operation Blue Star |
In 1901, Nobel Prize was
not given for |
Economics |
'Bharat Ratna' has been
awarded to only two foreigners so far |
Nelson Mandela, Abdul
Ghaffar khan |
First recipient of Nehru
Award |
U Thant, Burmese diplomat |
Only Indian to win the
Nobel prize in physics |
Dr. C. V. Raman |
First black American to
win the Nobel Prize for literature |
Toni Morrison |
First Rajiv Gandhi
National Sadhavana Award |
Mother Teresa |
ICC women's cricketer of the Year Award |
Smriti Mandhana |
Bharat Ratna Award 2019 |
Nanaji Deshmukh, Bhupen Hazarika |
Best Film at BAFTA Film Awards 2019 |
Roma |
Seoul Peace Prize |
PM Narendra Modi |
Asian Player Of The Year Award |
Manpreet Singh |
Cleanest capital by Swachh Survekshan Awards 2019 |
Bhopal |
India’s cleanest city by Swachh Survekshan Awards 2019 |
Indore |
National Intellectual Property Award for 2019 |
Benny Antony |
Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize 2019 |
Rana Dasgupta |
UEFA Europa League 2019 |
Chelsea |
First Woman Pilot to qualify for Combat Missions |
Bhawana Kanth |
Man Booker International Prize |
Jokha Alharthi |
First Black African Woman to Scale Mt. Everest |
Saray Khumalo |
First Woman to Cross Atlantic Ocean |
Aarohi Pandit |
Knight of the Legion of Honou |
A.S. Kiran Kumar |
Goldman Environmental Prize |
Alfred Brownell |
Global Leadership Award 2019 |
Sunder Pichai and Adena Friedman |
54th Jnanpith Award |
Amitav Ghosh |
Best Featured Film at SAARC Film Festival 2019 |
Nagarkirtan’ |
Best Innovation Award (Railway) |
Northeast Frontier Railway |
Bharat Ratna |
Pranab Mukherjee |
Ramon Magsaysay Award 2019 |
Ravish Kumar |
India’s Most Powerful Women in Media |
Kallie Puri |
The Dadasaheb Phalke Award is an yearly award given by the Indian government for lifetime contribution to Indian cinema. It was instituted in 1969.
The Ramon Magsaysay Award is Asia's top honor and is widely regarded as the region’s equal of the Nobel Prize.
The National Film Awards is one of the most protuberant film award ceremonies in India. The Awards were first presented in 1954.
On 22nd May, 1961, the fiftieth birthday of Sahu Shanti Prasad Jain, the founder of the Bharatiya Jnanpith, commanding national prestige and of global standard.
Padma Awards - one of the premier civilian Awards of the country, are deliberated in three categories, namely, Padma Vibhushan (extraordinary and illustrious service), Padma Bhushan (distinguished service of high order)and Padma Shri (illustrious service in any field).
The GoI launched the International Gandhi Peace Prize in 1995 on the event of the 125th anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi for their exceptional contributions towards social, economic and political alterations through non-violence and other Gandhian methods.
Bharat Ratna is the highest civilian honour, given for extraordinary service towards advancement of Art, Literature and Science, Sports and in recognition of Public Service of the highest order. Introduced, 1954
Swedish inventor and businessman Alfred Nobel, at the time of his death on 10 December 1896 had a patent on dynamite. As per his will, Alfred Nobel's mammoth wealth was used to form prizes to award in the fields of physics, chemistry, medicine, literature and peace. The first Nobel Prizes were awarded in 1901. In 1969, another prize was added "The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Science.
The Booker prize was initially sponsored by a food distribution company called Booker-McConnell. The current sponsor is investment company is called Man and therefore is now called the Man Booker Prize. Annual award given to the best original full-length novel in English